# armpit
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English armpitt, arme-pitt, armput, equivalent to arm +‎ pit.
(something unpleasant): Presumably a reference to underarm body odor.

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈɑɹmˌpɪt/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

armpit (plural armpits)
* The cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.
    Synonyms: underarm; axilla (anatomy); oxter (UK, dialectal), armhole (UK, dialectal)
    Coordinate term: poplit (knee pit)
** 2009, Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger, Virago Press (2018), page 265:She stood a couple of feet away from me […] exposing an edge of brassière strap at her armpit―exposing the armpit itself, a muscular hollow shadowed with fine stubble and faintly streaked with talcum.
** 2018 February 2, Owen Guo, “Aiming at China’s Armpits: When Foreign Brands Misfire”, in The New York Times‎:Unilever brought its Rexona deodorant to China a decade ago, dreaming of a market with 2.6 billion armpits.
* (colloquial, derogatory) Somewhere or something unpleasant or undesirable.
    Synonyms: butthole (vulgar), asshole (vulgar)
    the armpit of America

#### Derived terms

* armpit fart
* armpitted
* wingpit

#### Translations

Acehnese: geutiëk
Ainu: ハトポㇰ (hatopok)
Albanian: sqetull (sq)
Amharic: ብብት (bəbt)
Arabic: إِبْط (ar) m (ʔibṭ)
Bahrani Arabic: دلدوغ m (dəldūɣ)
Egyptian Arabic: باط m (bāṭ)
Hijazi Arabic: باط m (bāṭṭ)
Armenian: անութ (hy) (anutʻ), թեւատակ (hy) (tʻewatak)
Assamese: কাষলতি (kaxloti)
Asturian: sobacu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: qoltuq (az)
Balinese: ᬲᬶᬧᬄ (sipah)
Bashkir: ҡултыҡ (qultıq)
Basque: besape, galtzarbe
Bau Bidayuh: kropa
Belarusian: падпа́ха f (padpáxa)
Bengali: বগল (bn) (bogol)
Bhojpuri: बगल (bagal)
Bikol Central: yukyok (bcl)
Brunei Malay: keletiak
Buginese: ᨀᨒᨙᨄ (kalepa)
Bulgarian: подми́шница (bg) f (podmíšnica)
Burmese: ချိုင်း (my) (hkyuing:)
Catalan: aixella (ca) f, axil·la (ca) f, sobaco (ca) m
Cebuano: ilok
Central Dusun: pokilok
Central Melanau: awiek
Chakma: 𑄦𑄉𑄧𑄖𑄴𑄧𑄣𑄨 (ahgottoli)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 胳肋底 (gaak$^3$ laak$^{6-1}$ dai$^2$), 腋下 (jik$^6$ haa$^6$) (formal), 腋窩 / 腋窝 (jik$^6$ wo$^1$) (formal)
Mandarin: 夾肢窩 / 夹肢窝 (zh) (gāzhiwō), 腋窩 / 腋窝 (zh) (yèwō), 腋下 (zh) (yèxià)
Coptic: ⲁϭⲟ m (aco)
Cornish: kasel f
Czech: podpaží (cs) n, podpažní jamka f
Dalmatian: scul, skul
Danish: armhule (da) c
Dhivehi: ކިހިލި (kihili)
Dupaningan Agta: alipep
Dutch: oksel (nl) m
Egyptian: (ḥṯṯt)
Esperanto: akselo (eo), subbrako
Estonian: kaenlaauk, kaenal
Faroese: handarkulla f, handarkota f
Finnish: kainalo (fi), kainalokuoppa (fi)
French: aisselle (fr) f
Friulian: lesine f
Galician: axila (gl) f, sobaco (gl) m, sobrazo (gl) m, colexo m
Gallurese: suilcu
Georgian: იღლია (iɣlia)
German: Achselhöhle (de) f
Gorontalo: huwange'e (gor)
Greek: μασχάλη (el) f (mascháli)
Ancient: μασχάλη f (maskhálē), μάλη f (málē)
Guaraní: jyvaguy
Haitian Creole: anba bra
Hebrew: שחי (he) m (shekhi), בֵּית הַשֶּׁחִי (he) m (beith hashekhi)
Hiligaynon: ilok
Hindi: कांख (kāṅkh), बग़ल (baġal)
Hungarian: hónalj (hu)
Icelandic: handarkriki (is) m, holhönd f
Ido: axelo (io)
Ilocano: kilikili
Indonesian: ketiak (id)
Ingrian: kaila, kainalo
Iranun: irek
Irish: ascaill f
Italian: ascella (it) f
Japanese: 脇の下 (ja) (waki no shita), 腋下 (ja) (えきか, ekika), 腋窩 (ja) (えきか, ekika)
Javanese: ketek, kelek
Kapampangan: kilikili
Karelian: kainalo
Kashmiri: کَژھ (kaċh)
Kazakh: қолтық (kk) (qoltyq)
Khmer: ក្លៀក (km) (kliək)
Kikuyu: njegeeke class 9/10
Kimaragang: pokilok
Korean: 겨드랑이 (ko) (gyeodeurang'i) (common), 액와 (aegwa) (technical, medical)
Kriol: ngarlmarr
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: binçeng (ku) m, binkefş (ku) m
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latin: āxilla f, āla (la) f
Latvian: paduse f
Linngithigh: amogh
Lithuanian: pažastìs f
Livonian: kāinal
Livvi: kainalo
Lotud: pokilok
Ludian: kainal
Macedonian: пазува f (pazuva)
Madurese: klèmong (mad), lèmong (mad), kèmong (mad), klèncap
Maguindanao: ilek, irek
Malay: ketiak (ms), kelek (ms)
Malayalam: കക്ഷം (ml) (kakṣaṁ), തൊക്ക് (ml) (tokkŭ)
Maltese: abt m
Manchu: ᠣᡥᠣ (oho)
Maori: kēkē
Maranao: irek, kedekede
Marathi: काख f (kākh)
Minangkabau: katiak (min)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: суга (mn) (suga) (Mongolia sug, China suu)
Mongolian: ᠰᠤᠭᠤ (suɣu)
Navajo: achʼáayah, achʼáháyah
Ngazidja Comorian: kapwa
Norwegian:
Bokmål: armhule (no) m or f, armhole m or f
Nynorsk: armhole f
Occitan: aissèla (oc) f
Ojibwe: (my armpit) nining
Old English: ōcusta m, ōxn f
Oromo: bobaa
Ottoman Turkish: قولتق (koltuk), ابط (eybt), بغل (bağal)
Pangasinan: kilikili
Persian: زیر بغل (zir-e bağal), کش (fa) (kaš)
Polish: pacha (pl) f
Portuguese: axila (pt) f, sovaco (pt) m
Rapa Nui: ha'iga
Rohingya: boñl
Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
Romani: thak f
Romanian: subraț (ro) n, subsuoară (ro) f
Rungus: pokillok
Russian: подмы́шка (ru) f (podmýška)
Sabah Bisaya: palikoyok
Sardinian:
Campidanese: suércu
Logudorese: surbíccu, suircu
Sassarese: suircu
Scottish Gaelic: achlais f
Sebop: itek
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: па̏зухо n, па̏зух m
Roman: pȁzuho (sh) n, pȁzuh (sh) m
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Sicilian: scidda (scn) f
Slovak: podpazušie n, pazucha
Slovene: pazduha (sl) f, podpazduha f
Spanish: axila (es) f, sobaco (es) m
Sudovian: valtas m
Sundanese: kelek, dehe, ingkab (su)
Swahili: kwapa (sw)
Swedish: armhåla (sv)
Sylheti: ꠛꠉꠟ (bogol)
Tagal Murut: pakilok
Tagalog: kilikili
Tamil: அக்குள் (ta) (akkuḷ)
Tarifit: taddext f
Tausug: iluk
Telugu: చంక (te) (caṅka)
Thai: รักแร้ (th) (rák-rɛ́ɛ)
Tibetan: མཆན་འོག (mchan 'og), མཆན་ཁུང (mchan khung)
Timugon Murut: pakilok
Tooro: enkwaha class 9, amankwaha class 6
Tulu: കംകുളി (kaṅkuḷi), കംകുള (kaṅkuḷa)
Turkish: aksilla (tr), koltuk altı (tr)
Turkmen: goltuk
Ukrainian: па́хва f (páxva), паха́ f (paxá)
Urdu: بغل (baġal)
Uzbek: qoʻltiq (uz)
Venetan: asela f, scajo m, lexena f
Veps: kaimol
Vietnamese: nách (vi)
Voro: kainal
Votic: kainalo
Waray-Waray: kedekede
Welsh: cesail f
West Coast Bajau: kape
West Frisian: earmsholte
Yakan: ilek
Yiddish: פּאַכווע f (pakhve)
Yucatec Maya: xiikʼ
Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
Zulu: ikhwapha class 5 :
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### Anagrams

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